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LEGO scientists take over JET | 16/10/2014

What happens at JET when experiments have finished for the night? The scientists and engineers go home, and the control room is empty until 6am the following day. Or is it…?

Imagine a scenario where enthusiastic, curious and diminutive plastic characters eager to find out about fusion run their own plasmas – it might look something like this:

The LEGO team have a way to go to perfect fusion, but the experiment you see them working on is actually quite close to the routine researchers follow on the ‘real' JET – minus wizards and pandas of course!

The animation is based on a LEGO set of the JET Control Room that CCFE scientist (and LEGO fan) Fernanda Rimini created – brought to life by the animators at Culham Studio, with the help of some of the staff at JET who play a starring role. Thanks to them all for putting it together.

If you enjoyed the video, why not vote for a LEGO set of the ITER fusion reactor? Designer Andrew Clark has posted an idea for an ITER LEGO model and if it gets enough votes it will be considered by LEGO for commercial production. Show your support at:https://ideas.lego.com/projects/55049.